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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this high wind warning at Mar 31, 2006, 2:36 PM EST for 7 counties in Indiana; Cass County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2006, 2:36 PM EST (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2006, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Cass County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, White County, IN, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:46 PM EST | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Se Walton, IN | |
| Mar 31, 5:46 PM EST | HAIL 1 | 8 Sw Peru, IN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 234 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KIWX 311936 NPWIWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 236 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 ...DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST TODAY AS A COLD FRONT SURGES SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE OHIO RIVER. THE COMBINATION OF THESE SYSTEMS WILL CAUSE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. INZ003>005-012>016-020-022-MIZ077>079-010100- /O.UPG.KIWX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-060401T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.HW.W.0002.060331T1936Z-060401T0100Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN- KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-CASS IN-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC... FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS 136 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2006 /236 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WIND GUSTS ABOVE 60 MPH WERE REPORTED AT GARY INDIANA AND MICHIGAN CITY INDIANA. THESE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO TRANSLATE EAST INTO THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA AND FAR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...OR WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER OCCUR AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE LIKELY AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KIWX 010054 NPWIWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 754 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006 INZ003>005-012>016-020-022-MIZ077>079-010200- /O.EXP.KIWX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060401T0100Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN- KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-CASS IN-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC... FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS 654 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2006 /754 PM EST FRI MAR 31 2006/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:18 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 6:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 6:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 4:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 34 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.